Hewrami

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Hewrami is a dialect of the Gorani branch of Northwestern Iranian languages, traditionally spoken by Kurdish communities in the Hawraman region of western Iran and northeastern Iraq.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hewrami canonical 2
Hewramî 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwestern Iranian language variety
dialect
associatedEthnicity Hawrami people
Kurds
culturalRegion Hawraman region
surface form: Hawraman
endangermentStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution Hawraman region
surface form: Hawraman region of Iran and Iraq
hasAlternativeName Avromani
Awrami
Hawrami
Horami
hasDialectalVariation village-based subdialects in Hawraman
hasLinguisticFeature Iranian-type verb morphology
Northwestern Iranian languages
surface form: Northwestern Iranian phonology

lexical influence from Kurdish varieties
lexical influence from Persian
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb inflection patterns
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant system typical of Northwestern Iranian languages
isDistinctFrom Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Northern Kurdish
surface form: Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Southern Kurdish
ISO639Status often grouped under Gorani in classifications
isPartOf Gorani dialect continuum
languageFamily Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
regionType mountainous border area between Iran and Iraq
relatedTo Gorani
Zaza
other Northwestern Iranian dialects
religiousAssociation used historically in some local religious texts
shiftPressureFrom Persian language
surface form: Persian

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
surface form: Sorani Kurdish
sociolinguisticSituation spoken mainly in rural and small-town communities
spokenBy Kurds
surface form: Hawrami Kurds

Kurdish communities
spokenInCountry Iran
Iraq
spokenInPartOfCountry northeastern Iraq
western Iran
spokenInRegion Hawraman region
surface form: Hawraman
subdivisionOf Gorani branch of Northwestern Iranian languages
Gorani
surface form: Gorani language
usedIn local religious poetry
oral literature of Hawraman region
traditional songs of Hawraman
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gorani hasAlternativeName Hewrami
Hawrami alternativeName Hewrami
this entity surface form: Hewramî